Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-04-01
nIsNIARNIS.
Curious souvenirs Of ths Iron Chancellor Fro"
coant Won uuast', Memoirs.

| Our Dolltl"al NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. WIN
the German empire having becom
more satisfactory after the close o
1870, | deemed it we'll to renew will
Herr Won Bismarck the relations
which had ceased after 1866, and lief
| for Gastein
The three weeks which / passed
there with him form one OF the mos
preeablesouvenirs ofmyexistence. W.
| lived together at the Straublngel
Hotel. and passed the time III eacl
Others company. When one is or
GOOD terms with Bismarck, he is The
most agreeable, the most amlable mar
possible to imagine. The originality
of his ideas is surpassed only by the
originality of the expressions which he
uses. He is goodnatured, and his
eood-natureI manner somewhat soft
ems the bitterness OF the Opinions
which he utters. One OF his favoritt
expressions is; ''He's an idiot" (c'est
un imbecile) but he does not intend
to hurt ones feelings.
One day he said to me: What dc
you do. when things don't 60 as you
want them to? you should never lose
your temper as | do. | am an
gered with men for their wickedness,
never for their stupidity. DO you
never find real pleasure in breaking
something on such occasions? With
the ideas you have, you would smash
all the furniture in the house if you
were in my place.
al went once to see him one day.
continued Bismarck, pointing, as he
spoke, to the windows of the Emperor
William, "but l got into an internal
passion. | banged the door with such
violence that the door-knob came of
in my hand. | went into Lehndorf's,
and | slammed the door-knob into
the wash-basin, breaking it into a
thousand pieces. Are you sick"
Lenhdorf asked me. No, said !, but
| was And, indeed, my anger was
over
He talked TO me great deal about
the war of 1870, and his negotiations
with Jules Favre and Theirs. "The
time of the expiration OF the armis-
tice was nearly over" Bismarck said
to me one day, land said to Theirs,
Listen, Monsieur Theirs, have born
your eloquence for u whole hour, and
we must have an end of it. | give
you warning now that | won't talk
French any more; ! shall only talk
German But, monsieur, said Theirs,
we do not understand a word of Ger,
man That makes no difference o me;
| shall speak nothing but German.
Then and there Theirs delivered me a
suberb address, in five parts. which
listened to, smiling, and | answered
HIM in German. Favre and he remain
ed there halfan hour IN silence; but an
hour after they had signed the proto-
col. Then Fat once began to talk to
them in French"
Bismarck told me all this in Just
such tone as one ordinarily uses in
telling huntinc-story. He did not
seem to have the least idea of the
mental tortures which the two wretch
ed French delegates must have passed
through during that half-hour.
He also told me one day that after
the review held by the Emperor Will
lam upon the l4ongchamps race, course,
a man i'll blouse came up to him
and said to him: Bismarck, ties une
canaille!" bismarck, you're IL vii
lain9. 81 could have had him shot"
continued Bismarck; "but his courage
made an impression on me-.
Another time he told me that he
had been very mnch opposed to the
annexation OF Metz.
Il only yielded to the military par
fyrp Ia, Il. IL.
was worth hundred thousand men
to us. Oh! if Bazaine had been able
to hold out four weeks longer at Metz
we would have been obliged to raise
the siege of Paris"
Otherwise 1t is very difficult to put
confidence in Bismarck. One dav
when we were talking about the Ger
man provinces OF Austria asked him
ii he had never thought of annexinq
them. "That would be Il very stupid
thing to do" he replied. "'rhe popu-
lation is Catholic. 1t would form an
opposition center 1t would be a
great deal better to annex Holland"
Several months later | vas an am
bassador at London. The Dutch
charge d'affaires, who had lust ar
rived from Berlin, told me by chance
that one evening when he had asked
Herr Won Bismarck whether it was
true that Germany thought OF annex
ing Holland the chancellor had an
swered him: THAT would be a stu.
pid thing to do! 1t would only make
an opposition center. 1t would be
mucn better to annex Austria!"
/ had another example OF this du-
phclty. In the negotiations whth en-
sued after Sadowa, Bismarck kept
perpetually talking about his love for
Austria, Tor Vienna and his wish to
spare the Niennese the humiliation OF
an occupation. Ono day lit was at
Gastelnl a certain Henry Christ, a
good Frankfort bourgeois, who used to
know Bismarck in the times OF the
Diet, asked him in my presence: "TeIl
meyour highness why did younot enter
vienna IN 1866? You used always to
tell us at Frankfort that the dav Won
would ride into Vienna at the head OF
the Prusslan troops would be the
proudest day OF your life"
That was the only time in nv life
that ever saw Bismarck embarrass.
ed. COS
COUNT Won BEusr.
An Unsafe Trick.
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